Cecil’s Timeless Screed on Ball Lightning.
And now, we do know.
And knowing is half the…I just can’t say it.
Cecil’s Timeless Screed on Ball Lightning.
And now, we do know.
And knowing is half the…I just can’t say it.
From Bosda’s Physorg link:
“* Furthermore, the plasma glows very brightly, although the plasmoids appear to be rather cold. A sheet of paper placed above them does get lifted, but it does not catch fire.*”
Yow. That’s mighty mysterious. St. Elmo was a happenin’ cat.
it’s just a bunch of ionized gas that takes a split second to reionize. The fact that it’s cold makes sense, seeing as it cannot stay ionized (as opposed to a hot plasma which is ionized precisely because of its heat). It glows brightly because of the reionization process.
can this explain ball lightening?
I don’t know, do you have a good process for why reionization wouldn’t happen during a thunderstorm? (honest question… i don’t know much about it. maybe the air is already depleted of electrons.)
should be:
“(as opposed to a hot plasma which GETS REIONIZED precisely because of its heat)”
ugh, and reionized should be changed to deionized just about everywhere else